Pop star Lady Gaga has pulled her “Do What You Want” video due to controversy around the videos director, Terry Richardson, and co-star R. Kelly.
A source told Page Six ,“Gaga has a video directed by an alleged predator, staring another sexual predator with the theme, ‘I’m going to do whatever I want with your body?’ It was literally an ad for rape.”
Towards the end of 2013 claims began to surface that Richardson had sexual harassed several models. Brands such as H&M had distanced themselves after a widely circulated petition demanded companies to drop Richardson as their photographer. Richardson has since denied these allegations.
During the initial release of the video, the Village Voice ran a feature on R. Kelly that described him as the subject of dozens of “stomach-churning” sexual assault lawsuits in the 90’s, as well as once being tried for alleged child pornography.
Check out the leaked footage from the scrapped video.
